Nemesia pannonica Herman, 1879
Description
Male
Prosoma light brown, with bright and dark pubescences. Prosoma length: 5.0 mm. Legs: tibiae I-II without prolateral spines, tibia III with prolateral, retrolateral, dorsal and ventral spines, tibia IV with 3 retrolateral and 7 ventral spines. Opisthosoma grey-brown with vague, irregular pattern.
Female
Prosoma reddish brown with dark pattern. Prosoma length: 6.2 mm.Legs: patella III with 2 prolateral and 1 retrolateral spine, tibia IV with 3 retrolateral and 6 ventral spines. Opisthosoma browish, with faint dark pattern.
Additional information
Lives in up to 30 cm deep burrows, closed by thin door attached on one side and camouflaged with various particles
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Loksa 1966)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Decae 2012)
Chelicera, lateral view
(Loksa 1966)
Habitus
(Loksa 1966)
Habitus
(Loksa 1966)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Loksa 1966)
Claws
(Loksa 1969)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Decae A E (2012) Geography-related sub-generic diversity within the Mediterranean trapdoor spider genus Nemesia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 24-28
Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Loksa I (1966) Nemesia pannonica O. Herman (Araneae: Ctenizidae). Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös (Biol.) 8: 155-171
Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2